11
drone flights crossed Scenic Heights.
11
of them in October 2026.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Scenic Heights 11 times between 1 October 2026 and 30 October 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2026.
2 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
18% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).
3 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.
Why, in the agency's words
The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 11 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, October 2026
| Date | Takeoff (MDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct 2026 | 4:56 pm | Other | 9 min | 4a6468b1 |
| Fri 2 Oct 2026 | 2:52 pm | Other | 18 min | 5e9023d6 |
| Fri 2 Oct 2026 | 7:10 pm | Assisting another agency | 13 min | d6a3b069 |
| Mon 5 Oct 2026 | 2:43 pm | Other | 9 min | a5d4866e |
| Fri 9 Oct 2026 | 7:14 pm | Call for service | 16 min | b903a5f5 |
| Mon 12 Oct 2026 | 2:35 pm | Call for service | 11 min | e35c70d9 |
| Thu 15 Oct 2026 | 3:55 pm | Other | 13 min | 8c5c855a |
| Sun 18 Oct 2026 | 7:21 pm | Call for service | 12 min | bab7c204 |
| Sun 25 Oct 2026 | 6:35 pm | Traffic and crashes | 12 min | 3ab80986 |
| Mon 26 Oct 2026 | 10:55 pm | Call for service | 14 min | ec0ff636 |
| Fri 30 Oct 2026 | 10:01 pm | Other | 6 min | 9b9882b9 |
All 11 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
- Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
- Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- Boundary. "Scenic Heights" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Arvada (Neighborhoods), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
- A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.
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